Rethinking Popper

Rethinking Popper edited by Zuzana Parusniková, Robert S. Cohen.

In September 2007, more than 100 philosophers came to Prague with the determination to approach Karl Popper’s philosophy as a source of inspiration in many areas of our intellectual endeavor. This volume is a result of that effort. Topics cover Popper’s views on rationality, scientific methodology,...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Parusniková, Zuzana (Editor), Cohen, Robert S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 272
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Modern philosophy.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Epistemology.
Logic.
Ethics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reason, Logic, Science
  • Experience and Perceptual Belief
  • Critical Rationalism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
  • Ratio Negativa — The Popperian Challenge
  • “Why, and to What Extent, May a False Hypothesis Yield the Truth?”
  • Proof Versus Sound Inference
  • A Problem for Popper's Fallibilism
  • Why Advocate Pancritical Rationalism?
  • Karl Popper and Hans Albert — The Broad Scope of Critical Rationalism
  • Epistemology, Methodology, Evolution
  • Problem-Solving and the Problem of Induction
  • Popper's Fundamental Misdiagnosis of the Scientific Defects of Freudian Psychoanalysis
  • Popper on Refutability: Some Philosophical and Historical Questions
  • Popper's Thesis of the Unity of Scientific Method: Method Versus Techniques
  • Popper's Analysis of the Problems of Induction and Demarcation and Mises' Justification of the Theoretical Social Sciences
  • Popper's Theory of the Searchlight: A Historical Assessment of Its Significance
  • From Group Selection to Ecological Niches
  • Society, Politics
  • Popperian Individualism Today
  • Popper's Continuing Relevance
  • Open Society and the European Union
  • Open Rationality: Making Guesses About Nature, Society and Justice
  • Logic and The Open Society: Revising the Place of Tarski's Theory of Truth Within Popper's Political Philosophy
  • Popper and Communitarianism: Justification and Criticism of Moral Standards
  • Popper's Communitarianism
  • Re-examination of Popper's Portrayal of Socrates
  • Ethics, Economics, Education
  • The Moral Underpinnings of Popper's Philosophy
  • Critical Rationalism and Ethics
  • Popper's Insights into the State of Economics
  • Popper and Sen on Rationality and Economics: Two (Independent) Wrong Turns Can Be Remedied with the Same Program
  • Popperian Selectionism and Its Implications for Education, or ‘What To Do About the Myth of Learning by Instruction from Without?’
  • Applying Popperian Didactics
  • The Difficulties with Popper's Nontraditional Conception of Metaphysics
  • Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical Rationalism.

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